Dynamical Systems Seminars

Spring 2005

The Dynamical Systems seminar is held on Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM in MCS 149. Tea beforehand at 3:30 PM in MCS 153.

• January 31 James Propp (University of Wisconsin)
  Rational maps, Laurent polynomials, and combinatorics

• February 7 Radu Haiduc (Cornell)
  Horseshoes in the Forced van der Pol Equation

• February 14 Bernold Fiedler (Free University of Berlin and Brown University)
  Dynamics of Reaction and Diffusion: A Survey

• February 21 George Washington (GWU)
  GW-complexes

• February 22 (Special Tuesday Lecture) Guillaume van Baalen (University of Geneva)
  Asymptotic properties of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in 2D exterior domains

• Feburary 28 Bert Peletier (Leiden Universiteit)
  New entropy solutions of the Buckley-Leverett equation

• March 7 Spring Break
  

• March 14 Daniel M. Look (Boston University)
  Singular Perturabation of Three-circle Inversion

• March 21 Stefan Liebscher (Free University of Berlin and Brown University)
  Dynamics near Manifolds of Equilibria and Bifurcations without Parameters

• March 28 Hans Kaper (Argonne National Laboratory)
  Waves in Ferromagnetic Media

• April 4 Luc Rey-Bellet (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  Low Regularity Solutions and Gibbs Measures for a Stochastic Nonlinear Wave Equation

• April 18 Marathon Mann (Long Distance State U.)
  Measuring lengths over 26 miles

• April 19 (Tuesday at 2 PM) Peter Bates (Michigan State University)
  Nonlocal Evolution Equations (MCS 241 --- CBD Conference Room)
  Note special date, time, and place.

• April 25 Arek Goetz (San Francisco State University)
  

• May 2 Leonid V. Kalachev (University of Montana)
  Mathematical Modeling of Heterogeneous Bio-Switches

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